How to Unsend or Recall an Email on Your iPhone - CNET

You ever get that question of regret lavation implicit you aft firing disconnected an email? In the seconds aft sending it, possibly you've realized that you've made a large grammatical mistake that urgently needs to beryllium corrected. Or possibly you sent the email to the incorrect person, and present you desperately privation the email backmost successful your inbox and distant from the unintended recipient.

Luckily, if you're moving iOS 16, you tin present unsend emails connected your iPhone. The feature, which lone works with the built-in Mail app, gives you a constricted magnitude of clip to callback a sent message, whether you're utilizing iCloud, Gmail, Outlook oregon Yahoo.

If you privation to larn however to unsend an email connected your iPhone, here's everything you request to know.

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Before you effort to unsend an email

For this diagnostic to work, you indispensable usage the Mail app for sending and receiving emails. Unlike third-party standalone email apps, similar Gmail, Apple's built-in Mail app allows you to negociate each your email accounts from a azygous place, including:

• iCloud
• Microsoft Exchange
• Google
• Yahoo!
• AOL
• Outlook

If you privation to adhd your existing email relationship to Mail, unfastened the Settings exertion and spell to Mail > Accounts. Here you tin adhd your account, which volition past look successful the Mail app.

How to unsend an email connected iOS 16

In the Mail app, spell to the inbox of your chosen relationship (tap Mailbox to presumption all) and past make a caller email. Draft your email arsenic accustomed -- adding a recipient email address, subject, assemblage and immoderate attachments -- and past deed the bluish fastener connected the top-right to nonstop your email. 

Once you do, you should beryllium sent backmost to your inbox. At the bottommost of the page, you'll spot the words Undo Send successful blue. By default, you lone person 10 seconds to deed this fastener to unsend your precocious sent email, oregon other it volition irretrievably nonstop and you won't beryllium capable to get it back. 

If you deed Undo Send, you'll beryllium taken backmost to your email, wherever you tin hole immoderate mistakes oregon adhd immoderate missing attachments, and past nonstop it again. You'll person 10 seconds to undo the email if determination is different error, conscionable arsenic before.

As agelong arsenic you're successful the Mail app, you tin unsend emails sent via Gmail, Yahoo and more.

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How to get much clip to unsend an email connected your iPhone

The mode the unsend diagnostic works is that alternatively of really sending the email and past getting it back, you simply person a buffer play betwixt erstwhile you deed the nonstop fastener and the email is really sent. As mentioned above, the default clip is 10 seconds, but you tin spell into your settings to summation this buffer.

In the Settings app, spell to Mail > Undo Send Delay and past take either hold time: 

• Off
• 10 seconds (default)
• 20 seconds
• 30 seconds
  

If you take the Off option, you won't beryllium capable to usage the unsend diagnostic successful the Mail app.

You person up to 30 seconds to unsend an email, but not by default.

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